Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: GENERA L HINTS. Money?Passports?Letters of Introduction?Affability of Manners?Costume ?How to save Time and Honey in the Choice of Routes to London. IF money be necessary to an American travelling in his own country, it is more than necessary to him in Europe?it is indispensable. You cannot stir a mile in any part of the Old World unless you are prepared to pay your way. But, in respect to the quantity of the circulating medium essential to a traveller, opinions must very much differ. Persons accustomed to a high style of living at home interpret
luxuries to mean
necessities, while he who has been used to a simplicity of habit can minimize his wants to suit his means. It may, however, be taken as a fact, that a stranger cannot exist at hotels in any part of Great Britain or the European continent on less than one pound (five dollars) per diem; and if to this be added the general travelling expenses?the railroad, steamboat, omnibus, fly, cab, or carriage, with all the incidental charges of porters, newspapers,
accidental assurance, refreshments, fees to guides, and so forth ?it will be found that ten dollars a day is not in excess of necessity. It may be said that, when a person is stationary in a town he is not spending money on locomotion. This ia true to a certain extent; but, on the other hand, the cost of sight- seeing within a town absorbs as much money as the rail, the steamer, etc., away from it. You cannot be on your legs all day in going from museum to gallery, gallery to palace, and palace to theatre. A cab or a carriage thus becomes indispensable; and to this must be added the price of the admissions to the various places of entertainment. Paris offers many gratis attractions to the stranger, on the simple exhibition of his passport. In London, on th…
